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Tan said in court documents that she often worked 100 hours a week for the Standard and helped get it off the ground when it first opened.

The Standard is famous for its all-glass windows that give racy views to strollers on the High Line below.

She was fired, she said, because she no longer fit into the 'culture of the hotel.'

As a mother of two over 40 years old,'she did not possess the physical attributes to work at the hotel...she was, so far as defendants were concerned, not young, thin of model-like proportions, or one of 'the beautiful people' desired at the hotel,' Tan asserts in her lawsuit.

Tan was fired earlier this year after being accused of stealing boxes from her office -- a charge she denies.

'She's a good soul and a hard worker, and deserved better,' her lawyer, Keith Watanabe, told the NY Post.